Case Reports

A 54 year old Brisbane man, Peter Gooding, appeared before the District Court of Queensland on 13 December 2018 and was convicted of 76 charges of aiding his company, Storetrans Pty Ltd, trading as Goodings Container Transport, to deal with goods at non-quarantine approved premises without the permission of a quarantine officer or a director of quarantine.

On 22 May 2018, the former general manager for a Perth-based livestock exporter was sentenced in the District Court of Western Australia to 18 months’ jail, suspended immediately and released on a $20,000 recognisance order to be of good behaviour for 18 months, for falsifying official documents that saw some 22,000 sheep slaughtered in Pakistan.

Perth man, 49-year-old, Manther Samardali was sentenced on 24 November 2017 in the District Court of Western Australia to three years and two months’ imprisonment for smuggling tobacco into Australia and obstructing a Commonwealth official.

On 16 November 2017, 37-year-old US citizen and Australian resident, Travis Harms was sentenced in the District Court of Western Australia to 2 years and 10 months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to importing prohibited goods, steroids into Australia.

On 10 February 2017, Jens Uwe Henschel was fined $30,000 and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment but released immediately on a good behaviour bond for two years, after he pleaded guilty to importing food through his company Henschel Investments Pty Ltd that he knew was not permitted into Australia on 19 occasions between 2009 and 2014. His company was fined $15,000.